For the latter half of the 1990s and throughout all of the 2000s, it was virtually impossible to flip past the Food Network and not see Emeril Lagasse kicking something up a notch or shouting "Bam!" But long before he was charming audiences in front of the camera, the Fall River, Massachusetts native was making a name for himself in the kitchens of some of the country's most respected restaurants, including New Orleans' Commander's Palace, where he served as executive chef. In March of 1990, Lagasse bravely opened a new chapter in his culinary career when he opened the
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There are 100 days between March 12 and June 21, the official beginning of our favorite season. So every day between now and then, we'll be highlighting the products, places, and experiences we can't wait to use, visit, and have once summer rolls around. Days left: 81 One of our favorite scenes in the move Zoolander involves a faux commercial in which the title character, who's been affixed with the computer-generated tail of a merman, utters the phrase, "Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
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Millennials are tech-savvy, independent, entitled, motivated to make social change, and gay. Really gay. According to a new report found by The Daily Beast, they're twice as likely to identify as LGBT as other adult Americans. Not only are more of them identifying as gay—coming in at about 7%—theyir concept of LGBT contains multitudes (to quote that big old 'mo Walt Whitman). So much so that millennial dating app OKCupid offers up a full 12 categories to choose from as your sexual orientation (what is demisexual anyway?) not to mention 22 different options when it comes to gender. We'd be
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The Rolling Stones announced on Tuesday that they're kicking off a 15-city tour of North America at the end of May, so we'd wager the petit mains in Saint Laurent's Los Angeles atelier must be working overtime right now.
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Well, that didn't take long. Just a day after the Comedy Central short-circuited the Internet with the announcement that comedian Trevor Noah would succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show, their new 31-year-old host is already drawing the wrath of Twitter. The reason? Some pretty tasteless and, might we add, unfunny tweets. Hungry for more info about the South African comedian, Daily Show fans apparently scoured the new host's Twitter feed—and many came away disgusted by what they saw. A series of Noah's past tweets, posted from 2009 to as recent as this year, are being labeled misogynistic
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There's a concept in women's fashion called borrowing from the boys, but Rihanna wholly and unapologetically owned the men's coat she wore Monday night. The singer chose a piece from Raf Simons' fall 2015 collection to wear at the launch party for her friend Melissa Forde's new collection of bucket hats. The floor-length coat is littered with multicolored graffiti that's inspired by some of the cruel tricks that the schoolyard toughs played on Simons when he was a young student in Belgium. But for all the testosterone pumped into the design, it frankly looks a lot better on Rihanna than
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It's no exaggeration to say that a lot of people have been waiting a long, long time to see egg-throwing enfant terrible Justin Bieber get knocked down a peg or two; lucky for them, Comedy Central's roast of the precocious pop star did just that (and then some). Thanks to a remarkably diverse panel of blood-lusting luminaries, including Martha Stewart(!), Snoop Dogg(!!), Shaquille O'Neal(!!!), Ludacris(?), and comedians Will Ferrell (as Ron Burgundy), Kevin Hart, Hannibal Burress, and Natasha Leggero, The Biebs got burned on everything from his penchant for public peeing to his ill-fated stint as a monkey owner, with
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Once rivals, now family—that's the tune being sung by e-commerce sites Yoox and Mr Porter this morning after the two companies announced that they'll be merging. It's no secret that Mr Porter has become a menswear destination since its launch in 2011, and it's among one of our go-to online shops. The site is owned by Net-a-Porter Group, the parent company that also owns the women's fashion powerhouse Net-a-Porter (launched in 2000) and also includes the discount site The Outnet. The new company will be called, aptly, Yoox Net-a-Porter Group and, according to Yoox, had combined revenues of $1.4 billion
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